Everyone likes flattery; and when you come to Royalty you should lay it on with a trowel.
—Benjamin Franklin (American Political leader)
We set up harsh and unkind rules against ourselves. No one is born without faults. That man is best who has fewest.
—Horace (Quintus Horatius Flaccus) (Roman Poet)
A mantra to cure procrastinators: It needn’t be perfect; it needn’t be fun; it just has to get done.
—Marty Nemko (American Career Coach, Author)
He is happy whose circumstances suit his temper; but he is more excellent who can suit his temper to any circumstances.
—David Hume (Scottish Philosopher, Historian)
The easiest period in a crisis situation is actually the battle itself. The most difficult is the period of indecision—whether to fight or run away. And the most dangerous period is the aftermath. It is then, with all his resources spent and his guard down, that an individual must watch out for dulled reactions and faulty judgment.
—Richard Nixon (American Head of State)
Don’t criticize what you don’t understand, son. You never walked in that man’s shoes.
—Elvis Presley (American Musician)
Let us think of education as the means of developing our greatest abilities, because in each of us there is a private hope and dream which, fulfilled, can be translated into benefit for everyone and greater strength for our nation.
—John F. Kennedy (American Head of State)
Man becomes great exactly in the degree in which he works for the welfare of his fellow-men.
—Mohandas K. Gandhi (Indian Hindu Political leader)
The great majority of men are bundles of beginnings.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (American Philosopher)
Old hands soil, it seems, whatever they caress, but they too have their beauty when they are joined in prayer. Young hands were made for caresses and the sheathing of love. It is a pity to make them join too soon.
—Andre Gide (French Novelist)
Earning trust is not easy, nor is it cheap, nor does it happen quickly. Earning trust is hard and demanding work. Trust comes only with genuine effort, never with a lick and a promise.
—Max De Pree (American Businessman)
Do not brood over your past mistakes and failures as this will only fill your mind with grief, regret and depression. Do not repeat them in the future.
—Sivananda Saraswati
Wisdom is not in words; Wisdom is meaning within words.
—Khalil Gibran (Lebanese-born American Philosopher)
When you introduce a moral lesson, let it be brief.
—Horace (Quintus Horatius Flaccus) (Roman Poet)
Study the past, if you would define the future.
—Confucius (Chinese Philosopher)